Edmund Muskie

And that's worth a whale of a lot of votes in the Democratic Convention.

And I don't see that Ed Muskie has any of the...

He has a lot of attributes.

He's a bright, able man.

For much of its history, Maine has not been a hotbed of firebrand politics.

This bellwether state has been known for its soft-spoken senators like Ed Muskie, Bill Cohen, and George Mitchell, people who were described as, quote, "'thoughtful and pragmatic.'" Those days are long gone.

Polls now suggest Mainers have reached a breaking point, and they're clamoring for real change.

But Democrats have not won a Senate seat in Maine for almost 40 years.

And then people from inland Maine, some of those old mill towns were the salt of the earth Democrats.

And Muskie, for example.

That's correct.

You know, it's kind of flipped now, hasn't it?

Henry Kissinger says tonight the chances for success in the arms talks with the Russians have improved because of his secret trip to Moscow last week.

Sources in Washington now say Senator Muskie will withdraw from the remaining presidential primaries.

and concentrate on a smaller, less expensive campaign for convention delegates.

This is news from American FM Radio.

Political pundits insist to this day that her tears set back the cause of women as viable presidential candidates for decades to come.

Democrat presidential hopeful Senator Edwin Muskie of Maine saw his national political career ended when he at least appeared to cry while speaking at a news conference outside a New Hampshire newspaper.

Muskie and others claimed he wasn't crying and his face was simply wet from snow flurry conditions, but his fate was sealed.

Bottom line, tears and politics don't mix for women or men, and that's history.

right? That is true, but that APAC money, that helped haley a lot and it hurt haley a lot okay i mean it was a twin edge yeah on that so uh you know i think voters knew what they were doing

yeah um raise your hand if you want to get in the conversation we're going to run through a few more issues uh topics and then we'll get to so please raise your hand um here is uh um Rahm Emanuel, in an interview with CBS, tell me if this is an Ed Muskie problem.

Maybe this is a little too weepy for some voters.

Number 11, please.

There's another phrase that they use for it that I can't say on TV, but they ha- you know, canceled Democratic rallies.

They affected, uh, um, Edwin Muskie with the Canuck letter and knocked him out.

Okay, but here's the thing.

When they do any of those things now-